How To Track Your Visitors Like A Pro

Google Analytics is a key tool in your arsenal when running and growing your ecommerce (or any online) business however this often little under used trick can make it even more useful.

Let’s say you’re using Twitter to promote your business and interact with customers, it follows that at times you will include a link back to your website.

People who click on the link will normally get recorded in Analytics as a referral from twitter.com, it’s useful to be able to see these visitors separate from your other traffic sources which you can do easily by looking at your website referrers report.

Wouldn’t it be far more useful though if we could see exactly which Twitter messages and links they clicked on? With this trick you can.

The method we want to use is called link tagging and it’s really easy to use.

How to setup link tagging

When pointing a link back to your website simply add the following to the end of it:

Okay, so you have setup your links, but how do you find the stats in Google Analytics?

This short video shows how to quickly locate the visitor stats:

As you can see, it’s pretty easy to set all this up. Once done it makes your marketing analysis far more effective and you can quickly build up a picture of exactly what type of messages people are responding to. Let me know how you get on with it.